India Celebrates 100 Years of Hockey:
Hockey India celebrates 100 years of Indian Hockey (1925–2025) with nationwide events on 7th November, led by a major ceremony at New Delhi’s Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium. Hockey dates back nearly 4,000 years, with early references in Iran, Egypt, and Greece, while the modern game emerged in the UK, where formal rules were drafted in 1876. The two major forms of Hockey are field hockey and ice hockey. Field hockey is played on an artificial pitch, while ice hockey is played by teams of skaters on an ice rink. Hockey arrived in India in the 1850s under British rule and quickly grew popular, leading to the first Hockey club in Calcutta (1855). Domestic tournaments like the Beighton Cup (Calcutta) and Aga Khan Tournament (Bombay) further popularised the sport. The Indian Hockey Federation (IHF), the country’s first governing body for the sport was founded on 7th November 1925, one year after the formation of the International Hockey Federation (FIH).
